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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?28 March 2023Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can co...
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Conference on the gap between government and citizens21 March 2023It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund28 February 2023More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support22 February 2023A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities20 February 2023Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’31 January 2023With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers31 January 2023From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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What is there to do at Leiden University in 2023? Six events to look forward to20 January 2023From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts all manner of events every year. To make sure these events ge...
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365 days of Leiden2022: watch the retrospective13 January 2023From an academic study with local residents to a specially developed newspaper: humanities scholars contributed to Leiden European City of Science in ...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year05 January 2023Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the newsThe year in the blink of the eye 22 December 2022After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-d...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’22 December 2022University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...